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... coming in lower and greyer and just as we got in the van it started to rain a bit. For lunch we went to a local place and had an absolute feast. Home made soba which were cold, you dip into a soy type sauce with shallots and wasabi and slurp them up, fried marinated tofu, tempura vegies and dipping sauce as well as some nasty little fishy things which I tried then gave away. After the soba are gone, soba broth is added to the dipping sauce ...

... by our host at the train station and taken in his van down the windy snow lined roads to our guesthouse Mont Cervin. It has about 5 rooms and is decorated to look like someone's house, very cosy and most importantly warm. We were able to check in and settle before being taken into town for a meal. We were taken to a recommendation to Udon Fu where I had a tempura with udon soup. Wow ...

... food from a vending machine- we needed help doing this! The guy cooking makes up your delicious soup with Ramen noodles and slices of pork, a soft boiled egg and some greens. It was soo tasty and cost about $7 a bowl. Back at Guesthouse Kura, we had a couple of beers and a guy staying there had some snacks to try as well as Marina gave us a try of some chocolate and a little white bean paste chicken shaped thingy which was quite ...

... next to a group of them, they just looked at me and looked away and kept doing what they wanted. I had always wanted to see them with the icicles hanging off their faces and managed to get a photo one who had them, gorgeous. After we had our fill of the monkeys we toddled carefully back down the hill to the Enzo cafe where we had steaming hot bowls of ramen soup with roasted chicken and a coffee. To go with it we ordered a piece of ...

... us much. We decided to go for a little walk around the area. It looked as though there was a park and a few temples which turned out to be a cemetery and a few temples. It was quite nice walking through it with blobs of snow on the ground. Some of the plots were quite historical with information about the people there. After this we started our train journey with our faithful wheels bags. We had to get back to Ueno station to catch the Shinkansen to Nagano. This was only a ...